include those from every state and 57 countries around the world. Among admitted students in the class of 2024, 20% were out-of-state, and the top three states other than Georgia were California, Florida, and Maryland.
=== Teaching and scholarship ===
The university has a student-to-faculty ratio of 17 students per faculty member, and 46 percent of its classes have fewer than 20 students. The average freshman retention rate is 95 percent. As of 2024, the university is ranked five stars out of five and in the top 37 out of 439 Best National Universities in the United States for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" as scored by U.S. News & World Report.
As an adjunct to classroom, laboratory, clinical, and experiential learning, in 2009 the university began to provide a new online learning system, the eLearning Commons (eLC), that is exploitable by both students and faculty. eLC is unique, jointly supplied and supported by the university's Center for Teaching and Learning and Enterprise Information Technology Services, …
